The researchers managed to extract DNA from the teeth and bones from two of the burials. They found that as humans migrated ...

It could have been a religious object, an ornament or just an ancient ... people from the Indonesian island of Flores (see "Were 'Hobbits' Human?"). When the migration was complete, Homo sapiens ...

One major theory posits that ancient peoples ... colonization. Homo sapiens is not a species content to stay in one place.

A new explanation has emerged for why Homo sapiens survived in Europe and North Asia when the apparently better-adapted ...

They are also pinpointing what exactly we have inherited from our closest ancient human relatives. We know that interbreeding with these ancient humans allowed Homo sapiens to acquire ... have been at ...

Homo sapiens migrated out of Africa roughly 50,000 years ago, but scientists have now discovered that some chose to remain ...

Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and Homo ...

Several human species, including modern Homo sapiens, Neanderthals, or Denisovans may have coexisted in this part of Tajikistan’s Zeravshan Valley, which likely served as a migration route to ...

A study suggests that Homo sapiens may have benefited from the use of ochre and tailored clothing during a period of increased UV light 41,000 years ago, during the Laschamps excursion.

In a time long before cities, farms, or even written words, early humans across the Levant were already shaping a complex ...

A jawbone dredged up from the seafloor off Taiwan belongs to an ancient human species known as Denisovans, protein fragments ...